Person · 5590–5658 AM · 1830 CE — 1898 CE
The Damesek Eliezer—Rabbi Eliezer Tzvi Safrin of Komarno רבי אליעזר צבי ספרין מקומרנא — דמשק אליעזר
the second rebbe of Komarno; author of the Damesek Eliezer, a commentary on the Zohar
Son of Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Safrin, the Heichal ha-Berachah. He took the court after his father's death in 1874 and led it twenty-four years.
His chief book is the Damesek Eliezer, a commentary on the Zohar; he has also the Ben Beiti on the Torah, the Megillot and the Psalms, the Zekan Beito on Avot, and the Or Einayim, a key to kabbalah.
He died on 24 Iyar 1898. His son Rabbi Yaakov Moshe took the court.
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Sources
Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- The Damesek Eliezer—a commentary on the Zohar — the book he is named by
Scholarship
- The register of the Komarno house — the dates 1830-1898 and the order of succession of the court
Basis: documents and evidence.